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That was quick and! `` that was quick! Thank you for joining us. I'm | :00:17. | :00:36. | |
just so pleased when it works. Time for a look at the front pages. | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
Disagreement between airlines over whether Iraq's airspace is safe to | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
fly through. A campaign against private parking companies that | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
threaten drivers with huge fines. Millions of motorists could face | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
higher diesel costs as the EU puts pressure on Britain to cut air | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
pollution levels. The latest from Gaza on the front page of the Times, | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
including the news that an Israeli soldier appears to have been | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
captured by militants. The picture is of Claudia Fragapane. The World | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Health Organization is concerned about containing the Ebola virus. | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
And the picture is of Usain Bolt at the Commonwealth Games. He is easily | :01:26. | :01:34. | |
through and beautiful to watch. The Guardian is keeping Gaza on its | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
front page. Not all of them are by any means. War returns to Gaza as | :01:38. | :01:49. | |
truce breaks down. Nick Clegg is calling on Benjamin Netanyahu to | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
talk directly to Hamas. I hate to say this but I'm not sure that his | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
intervention is going to make a great deal of difference, given that | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
the entire full force of the American federal government is not | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
managing to get the Israelis and the Palestinians around the table. It is | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
a very sensible intervention by Nick Clegg to say that there must be | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
negotiations at some point but where is the incentive for Benjamin | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
Netanyahu to do that? He has the military power, he has the force, he | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
has the Iron Dome protecting his citizens, and he now has a clear set | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
of military objectives which is to destroy these tunnels which he says | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
Hamas has made and which will be used and are being used for | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
terrorism. Until he has done that, I do not see, given that there is no | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
stick being wielded by the international community, why he will | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
come to the negotiating table. We understand that a soldier has been | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
kidnapped by Hamas. Israel will not rest until they have got him back. | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
We have looked at various versions of this story full of the Guardian | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
has sources suggesting that they have both claimed they have taken | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
one Israeli soldier and one source says they have not. There are also | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
claims a strategy is being deployed by Israel where they will pound the | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
area around where the man is being seized, even if that is likely to | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
cause injury to him. It seems that something has certainly happened | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
there. It is true that in November, 2011, there was an Israeli soldier | :03:34. | :03:43. | |
released by the Palestinians who had been held for five years and in | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
return for which 1000 prisoners were released. In terms of getting | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
something out of this situation, in which Hamas have practically no | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
credibility whatsoever and no allies, and the allies they used to | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
have in Egypt are now in jail, and there is no broker on their side... | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
Although, I understand Turkey is trying to intervene to get the two | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
sides together in Egypt and to those who stalks. `` to those peace | :04:13. | :04:23. | |
talks. You bowl out of control. Four countries have seen `` Ebola out of | :04:24. | :04:36. | |
control. The World Health Organization says that with the | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
right resources and the right measures, it can be contained. We | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
have the headline that it is out of control but then when you read the | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
article carefully, to, three athletes from Sierra Leone have | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
tested negative for Ebola. You begin to wonder if it is similar to the | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
kind of scares we have had before. In the other article, it is athletes | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
from Sierra Leone currently in Glasgow that are begging not to be | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
sent back to their country, because that is where we have had the | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
outbreaks. People are suspicious and do not want to dump forward and go | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
to hospital, which is where they have to be. `` do not want to come | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
forward. Let's be clear, there has not been a single case in the UK or | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
outside of west Africa, as far as I know. What they are picking up on is | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
the fact that the visa seems to be spreading quickly in those West | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
African countries. `` the disease seems to be spreading quickly. In | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
this country, we do go to the doctor when we feel sick. And we have good | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
public advice. When we get to the doctor or into hospital, we have a | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
relatively well equipped and resourced system. There are good | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
reasons why we should not necessarily panic yet. | :06:03. | :06:15. | |
Some airlines are still continuing to fly over Iraq, even though it is | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
a war`torn part of the world. It has still been allowed, or airlines have | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
chosen to fly over eastern Ukraine. Even though there is a lot of | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
conflict there. I am not sure of that we knew the rebels have those | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
kinds of weapons capable of reaching planes at 30,000 feet. Now we are | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
looking in the north of Iraq and thinking, do the fighters there, the | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
insurgents, have these kind of weapons in the same way that the | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
rebels in eastern Ukraine had them? To my mind, I do not understand what | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
is in it for an airline. This is involuntary choice. `` a | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
involuntary. If I was an airline boss, I do not see why I would fly | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
my planes over any point of even potential risk. It is not like they | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
have to be changed all over the world. This is one spot on the | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
globe. Maybe more people will now choose the airlines they fly with | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
depending on the route. Fair enough. That is a point people | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
should be able to choose about. Here is the confusing thing. From reading | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
this article, Rajesh Airways, for example, consider it safe to be | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
flying over Iraq. But they have not been flying over the Ukraine since | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
March. I did not know that. `` British airways. I am still puzzled | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
about how they can have better intelligence than practically any of | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
our defence sources in the government. | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
A lot of police officers on duty because of the Commonwealth Games | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
taking place in Glasgow. They have got leave to take, holiday to use | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
up. They are probably working overtime. Is this really a concern | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
for people in Scotland? After London hosted the Olympic Games we did not | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
see a massive surge in crime. I do not think people are actively | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
worried that the place is suddenly going to be hit by a rash of | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
unsolvable crime. But I have spoken to police officers who have pointed | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
out that a lot of what is normally delegated or contracted to private | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
security firms is being done by the police in the Glasgow Commonwealth | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
Games. Partly because they can see there are cuts ahead and they are | :08:53. | :09:02. | |
trying to bolster income. I think there probably is a state at the | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
moment where there are not so many police around the rest of Scotland. | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
They will probably be problems ahead. A Labour MP, a former chief | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
constable, says the backlog will be enormous. Is this a green light to | :09:20. | :09:30. | |
criminals? As far as I know, we did not see a rash of burglaries or | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
worse after London 2012. What we did see in 2011 were the riots in | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
London. It seemed after the games that London was a more united, a | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
proud city with its head held high. That is a broad, impressionistic, | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
almost jingoistic thing to say. I do not know whether there was any | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
effect on crime whatsoever. But the effect on Glasgow after the | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
Commonwealth Games will be more along the positive lines. The city | :10:04. | :10:13. | |
feeling great about itself. The Daily Telegraph. Larger UK this | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
Scotland better off than peers in smaller countries. Scots have more | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
disposable income because there are part of the UK. This will not make | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
happy reading for the Nationalists who are in favour of independence. | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
But people might prefer freedom and independence to having money in | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
their pocket? Freedom comes at a price. The rationale is that at the | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
moment the Scots apparently enjoy a greater level of disposable income | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
than their contemporaries in Denmark or Finland. The rationale here is | :10:57. | :11:05. | |
the supermarkets, for example, sell products at the same price all over | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
the UK, even though transportation costs to the north of Scotland are | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
higher. The argument goes, after independence that might change. | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
There could be variation in prices. There was a point earlier on how the | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
Nordic countries have things like better childcare and more cohesive | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
societies. Those other things Scotland could aim for. But that is | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
not the platform on which Alex Salmond is fighting the election. He | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
says, we will be better off. We will keep our oil. There will be more | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
pounds in your pocket. Once we escape the cover the English. This | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
story is a saying that is not true. Will it be the main thing that | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
people want their pocket? That might well be the way people think, since | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
money seems to be the only standard of value in Britain these days. If | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
we look at the countries that we have just mentioned, we are | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
currently 16`20 of the child well`being index. Denmark and | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
Finland are probably one and two. Money cannot buy you love, it | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
probably cannot buy you the things you did in life, which are social | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
goods provided by governments that are responsible. We are not living | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
in a government that has those priorities. We could have some more | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
quids in our pockets, but I do not think it will make people feel any | :12:49. | :12:57. | |
better. What money will get you though, is a tad too. Many tattoos, | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
depending on your preference. The Times is looking at how the Jews are | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
the new social climate. `` tattoos. Are you a fan of it? No. I cannot | :13:08. | :13:29. | |
get it. I remember getting the transfers when I was young. I have | :13:30. | :13:38. | |
never liked the idea. The more they seem to proliferate, the less I can | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
see any point of doing it. In the old days it was a bit of a | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
statement. Now it seems to be part of the uniform. Everybody seems to | :13:47. | :13:58. | |
have one. Do you? I do not. I have always rather wanted a Diet Coke | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
logo on my shoulder. I love Diet Coke. They might pay you to have | :14:02. | :14:12. | |
that. Yes indeed. But now I learn that 27% of my middle`class compete | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
to its habitat use, compared to only 26% of people who are working class. | :14:19. | :14:27. | |
`` have tattoos. Maybe it is time for us to alter out and get into. | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
The thing like this, you think about the 70s and platform shoes and | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
flares, you can get rid of those. I know somebody who had a lot of | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
tattoos in his late 20s, early 30s. He is spending a fortune on getting | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
rid of them. That seems like an expensive way to spend your free | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
time. So could it be classy? Helen Mirren get away with it. I think the | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
pendulum is about to swing. 90% of the upper class could also get them. | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
We will end up with the pendulum swinging right back. Much easier to | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
stick with the flares and the platform shoes. Thank you. Thank you | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
very much. That is it for the papers. Now it is time for | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
Commonwealth Games Sportsday. | :15:27. | :15:28. |